Bentonite is a preferred buffer and backfill material for deep geological disposal of high-level nuclear waste (HLW). Bentonite does not retain anions by virtue of its negatively charged basal surface. Imparting anion retention ability to bentonite is important to enable the expansive clay to retain long-lived (129)I (iodine-129; half-life = 16 million years) species that may escape from the HL...

We present some new results on the existence and the approximationof common fixed point of expansive mappings and semigroups in probabilisticmetric spaces.

Recent observations of the Universe have led to a conclusion suppressing an up-to-now supposed deceleration of the Universe caused by attractive gravitational forces. Contrary, there is a renaissance of the cosmological member Λ and introduction of enigmatic repulsive dark energy in attempts to rationalize a would-be acceleration of the Universe expansion. It is documented that the model of Exp...

In this paper we consider Z-actions, d ≥ 1, by automorphisms of compact connected abelian groups which contain at least one expansive automorphism (such actions are called algebraic Z-actions of expansive rank one). If α is such a Z-action on an infinite compact connected abelian group X, then every expansive element α of this action has a dense group ∆αn(X) of homoclinic points. For different ...